Top 100 Painful Things Quotes
#1. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#2. Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
John Darnielle
#3. No matter what painful things happens, even when it looks like you'll lose... when no one else in the world believes in you... when you don't even believe in yourself... I will believe in you!
Rem
#4. My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
Donna McKechnie
#7. I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
Stella Young
#8. Painful things are always good to read and sad to feel.
Anuj Tiwari
#9. But kids also make the hard things harder, and the painful things more painful, because you have to see them hurting too. Of course, they also give you a reason, a compelling one, to make it through." "I guess I hadn't
Leta Blake
#11. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things ... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.
Jinkx Monsoon
#13. Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.
Helen Garner
#14. Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
Jules Verne
#15. One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
Isabella Bird
#16. Something in his manner makes me want to confide things to him I've never told anyone. Even painful things, shameful things. I didn't know how badly I wanted to share them.
Christina Baker Kline
#17. One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staff and his crew, I think that really hurt a lot of show runners, because it was never a choice between our writers and our crew.
Edward Allen Bernero
#18. Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
Amy Poehler
#19. The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
Anita Diamant
#20. It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
Newt Gingrich
#21. Sometimes you have to endure painful things to realize that you're a whole lot stronger than you think.
Jenn Bennett
#22. I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.
Robin Gibb
#23. The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.
Katrina Kaif
#24. How do you calibrate pain?" asked Jamie. "By cutting out the background pain of the world," answered Isabel. "By cutting all that out, not registering it, and responding only to those painful things that we can do something about. Because otherwise ...
Alexander McCall Smith
#25. An unwillingness to endure the hardship of a depressed time keeps us from the possibility of capturing the wisdom and strength and joy that can exist on the other side. There is a season to be sad. Painful things hurt. Allow yourself to be hurt.
Eric Greitens
#26. The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was ... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
Joseph Prince
#27. I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Natalie Dormer
#28. One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
Audrey Niffenegger
#29. Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#30. My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.
John Darnielle
#31. Waiting for your
answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At
least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
Haruki Murakami
#32. I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
Reese Witherspoon
#33. Take your picture off the wall
So I won't have to see your eyes
And maybe soon I won't recall
The painful things that once were nice
Emily Ruskovich
#34. Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.
Mel Gibson
#35. I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder ... I didn't chisel anything in stone ... Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.
Anne Heche
#36. There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.
Jennifer St. Giles
#37. One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
Patrick DeWitt
#38. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Morris Graves
#39. He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
Rick Riordan
#40. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.
Richard Castle
#41. I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!
Anne Hathaway
#42. As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard
#43. But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#44. Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.
Dov Davidoff
#45. When all you can do is watch things play out for someone, it is often just as painful for the observer as it is for the participant.
Torry Martin
#46. This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life's painful commotion.
Edouard Leve
#47. The negative energies when sent out in the universe will reap an equivalent or more of that. It can come back as health problems, an accident, material loss or painful relationships.
Hina Hashmi
#48. Hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid.
Caroline Knapp
#49. Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.
Frederick Lenz
#50. At an emotional level, we feel that things should be happy and when things are difficult or painful, something is wrong. According to the Buddhist teachings this is what causes suffering.
Krissy Pozatek
#51. I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!
Marc Jacobs
#52. If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.
Kay Arthur
#53. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.
Karen Marie Moning
#54. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.
P.D. James
#55. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.
Stephenie Meyer
#56. Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.
Amy Lane
#57. It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.
Jim Woodring
#59. I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.
Bret Easton Ellis
#60. It's too painful to us to admit that our children won't wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things...
Fredrik Backman
#61. A sign of this is what happens (10) in our actions, for we delight in contemplating the most accurately made images of the very things that are painful for us to see, such as the forms of the most contemptible insects and of dead bodies.
Aristotle.
#62. It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
Christina Baker Kline
#63. I've been left for someone ... all those things ... It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.
George Clooney
#64. Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
Janet Yellen
#65. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. God has a plan for each of our lives. As hard as it is to understand and as painful as it might be, sometimes that even means Him allowing bad things to happen in order for His purpose to be fulfilled.
Cherlisa Starks Richardson
#67. The truth is ugly and painful. It's uncomfortable. It makes you question things. It creates uncertainty. People don't want that. They want to hear a version of the truth that meets the expectations they've already conjured up in their own head.
Allie Everhart
#68. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Criss Jami
#69. Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.
Kathryn Perez
#70. It was essential that someone, somewhere, even if it was only the fairy folk, should know that the human race had produced more than wars, catastrophes, and ultimately its own slow and painful self-destruction. It had produced things of exquisite and lasting beauty as well.
Kate Thompson
#71. In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.
Seth Gordon
#72. Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Marton Csokas
#73. I've been many things - bold, rash maybe, and lucky - but I don't think I've ever been really brave. Doing what you want, even if it's difficult or painful, that isn't brave. Doing what you have to do - however much it hurts, however much you hate it - that's courage.
Meg Clothier
#74. I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things ... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.
Sergei Lavrov
#75. It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.
Michael Gira
#76. It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.
Sarvesh Jain
#77. In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing
the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.
May Sarton
#78. Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
Gregory David Roberts
#79. Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There's a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty
Dan Skinner
#80. If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.
Jeff Zentner
#81. Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Edmund H. North
#82. Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
Chris Martin
#83. I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive.
Jasmine Warga
#84. How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.
Isabel Wolff
#85. The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
David Brenner
#86. I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.
Shari Arison
#87. Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Martin Landau
#88. Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.
Donna Tartt
#89. Things had gotten so intense, so painful, that my body just checked out. Yep, my mind and soul and heart had a quick meeting and voted to shut down for a few repairs.
Sherman Alexie
#90. There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
V.S. Naipaul
#91. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
#92. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads ... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
Harlan Ellison
#93. And that's what F**k It does. Sometimes things feel as if they're just too painful to bear. And some part of you just gives up caring. The thing that mattered so much, somehow doesn't matter any more. And the freedom that comes from that is a blast and a half.
John C. Parkin
#94. I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
Annette Bening
#95. True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.
John Carter Cash
#96. You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.
William Landay
#97. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.
Kate Levinson
#98. It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
Eric Clapton
#99. Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.
Justin Torres
#100. I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.
Sara Blakely
